GSOC head: We may have been under some form of surveillance

The chairman of the Garda Ombudsman Commission says he believes the organisation's headquarters was under "some kind of surveillance".

Simon O'Brien says the Commission investigated possible bugging under a legal clause that allows it to investigate possible offences by members of the Gardaí.

However, he says he personally decided not to report the suspicions to the Minister for Justice Alan Shatter, because he did not want to suggest that Gardaí had organised the surveillance of the office.

The Government is facing fresh claims that it is failing to address spiralling health waiting list delays after a patient was told a hospital could not see him for a neurological condition until at least 2024.